Brussels, 23/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 23 March, the EU27 foreign ministers and the two chairs of the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly strongly condemned the coup d'état in Mali on 22 March, and the European Commission has suspended aid to the ACP states until further notice (the ACP group comprises countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific), as instructed by the EU Council of Ministers, under Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement.
EU Development Commissioner Andris...